InsaneJournal

Posting Format: Posts to the communities must be in 3rd person and past tense. You must also include this information at the beginning of your post: “Who, When, Where, What.”

• nosuchplace: The community for present-day posts. The subject line must include the day and date as we provide them in Day Announcements, such as “Wednesday: August 22, 2007” if that is the date in-game.




• nosuchtimes: The community for history posts that take place before your character came to Elysium or posts during Time Skips. It is not mandatory to post to this community at all. The subject line must include the name of the character(s) involved in the post.

Character Journals: You aren’t required to post to your character’s journal. However, you may use it for non-interactive journal entries and sending out handwritten notes or gifts to other characters. A personal journal entry would be unreadable by other characters because it is a real journal your character keeps at home. Other characters may not comment on person journal entries as these are private and other characters will not have access to them. For sending out notes and gifts to other characters, you may format it however you like and use graphics if you so wish. Just remember to lj-cut large images! You may post certain OOC things to your character’s journal, such as a list of threads or storylines, but you may not post random OOC things to your character’s journal.

Writing Style: We want to see quality storybook replies at this game. It’s meant to be fun to read as well as write. Include thoughts, actions, dialogue, etc. in what you write. Explore your character as well as the situation. Most of all, have fun. Writing isn’t meant to be a chore, and while the length requirements aren’t for everybody, we prefer writers who enjoy putting the effort into their writing.

Methods of Threading/Logging: Outside of posting in the commenting format on the communities, we allow scenes to be RPed via instant messenger programs, e-mail, PMs, and Google Docs. If the entry is longer than eight paragraphs, please put the rest of it under an lj-cut. If you don’t like one format, don’t worry! We don’t have restrictions on what formats you can use to write out scenes with other people.

Length of Replies:

• Commenting over the Communities: We would like to see anything between two full paragraphs to five paragraphs with the average paragraph consisting of at least eight sentences. Anything more than that is up to you. We expect quality replies at this game, and the mods will contact you if you begin regularly posting comments that are too short.




• Logging: The length of your replies to each other, if you are making a log, are up to your discretion. Short replies always work better with logging.

Non-English: If you include your character speaking or writing in any language other than English in a post, leave a translation in English at the bottom of the post, or under an lj-cut, with an explanation that it is an English translation. You may write what they are saying in English and italicize it to indicate they are speaking another language, too.

Adult/Mature Content: We allow mature content, such as sex and violence, to be posted. There are no limits to the content you’re allowed to post because, at the end of the day, it’s all fiction. If you don’t like something, you aren’t being forced to read it. Ignore it and move on. Just remember this isn’t an NC-17 game, and we prefer that you do not flood the community with sex posts. We allow it, but it doesn’t mean that’s all we want to see. You also must mark these posts with clear warnings on what the post contains and put them underneath a cut. No exceptions. You do not have to friends-lock these entries, but you may do so if it makes you comfortable.